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Still hustling: Student volunteer army commander Sam Johnson’s next chapter

Warning! Sitting next to Sam Johnson may inspire volunteering

Pacific Rally sailors turn citizen scientists to help save the sea

Race across the Pacific doubles as mission to protect marine biodiversity.

Listener weekly quiz: May 28

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Our secret beliefs: 35 years of election data reveals NZers' surprising views & values

A study tracking NZ's political pulse uncovers the quiet, complex views shaping politics.

Listener weekly quiz: May 21

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Why hundreds of NZ women and children could be the unwitting victims of sex offenders

The increasing sophistication of hidden spy cameras means spy cam sex crimes are rising.

Ruff justice: Revisiting the Dog Tax War in the Hokianga

An 1898 tax remains today as dog registration fees collected by councils.

Our longfin eels are endangered, so why are they being commercially fished?

Journey of longfin eels to spawn grows more difficult due to pollution and human barriers.

Listener weekly quiz: May 14

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NZ Music Month: Why these are the country’s best songs

From Now Is The Hour to What Was That, the songs that speak to our national identity.

Listener weekly quiz: April 30

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How FOMO played a part in motivating Treaty Principles Bill submissions

Submitters who killed Act’s Treaty Principles Bill deployed tactics shoppers know well.

Duncan Garner: When did our teens stop working and whose fault is it?

Thousands of young Kiwis are drifting -- and not in a good direction.

The Bigger Picture: They also served

Some 550 Kiwi nurses served overseas in World War I.

Anzac Day 2025: The concrete book, a POW’s legacy and a family’s surprising discovery

A diary kept by a serviceman in a German prison camp was discovered only after his death.

Anzac Day 2025: Grief cast in stone

NZ remembers its war dead with monuments that seem to bury the sadness in dates and names.

Anzac Day 25: Spoils of war - how the dining spots and dessert shops of WWII changed the way NZers eat

Food historian David Burton on the wartime influences that inspired his "foodie" father.

Danyl McLauchlan: Bussy being green?

Partners or Rivals? The strategic bind facing Act and the Greens.